SATURDAY UPDATE: Monday’s and Tuesday’s drier weather will be short-lived, the National Weather Service in Miami said, with rain chances climbing again at the end of the week.

No rain is mentioned in Monday’s forecast with easterly winds becoming southeast on Tuesday. But southerly winds bring another round of moisture back in Wednesday through Friday, as precipitation probabilities bounce back up to 40 percent.

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COLIN WRAP-UP: The National Weather Service in Melbourne, issued a report on Tropical Storm Colin’s impacts on East Central Florida. Coastal South Florida had very little rain or wind from Colin, but Central Florida picked up as much as 4.57 inches from the storm with a maximum wind gust of 52 mph at the Ponce Inlet south of Daytona Beach.

HISTORIC YEAR: Most Florida residents remember 2005 as the year of Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Wilma. It was the busiest hurricane season on record in the Atlantic. Less memorable was the season’s kick-off 11 years ago on Friday — Tropical Storm Arlene, which brushed the Keys with winds over 50 mph on June 10. (Credit: NWS-Key West)

ORIGINAL POST: South Florida got a sneak peek at next winter’s weather on Thursday.

The strong El Niño that was in control of conditions over the peninsula December through March was officially declared over in a NOAA report.

Forecasters said there’s a 75 percent chance of La Niña — cooler than normal Pacific waters as opposed to the warm water phenomenon of El Niño — occurring later this year. So, what does a La Niña look like?

In addition to producing lower wind shear in the Atlantic during the summer and fall hurricane season, which can lead to an uptick in storms, La Niña tends to bring drier and slightly warmer winters to the Florida peninsula.

Dry weather is typical of La Niña winters in South Florida. (Credit: NOAA)

April through June can be wetter than usual, and July through September may be slightly cooler than average.

At Weather Underground, blogger Bob Henson said a La Niña extending into 2018 is “quite possible.”

“Because many La Niña events last two or three years, there is already a slightly enhanced probability of La Niña in 2017-18, if history is any guide,” he said.

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DRIER START TO NEXT WEEK: A high pressure system expected to set up in the Gulf of Mexico early next week should bring northerly winds, pushing deep tropical moisture to the south, according to the National Weather Service in Miami.

Rain chances increase again toward the end of the week, forecasters said.